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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 130508, member: 2761&quot;]I have bought coins from eBay, Teletrade, Heritage and a number of online auction houses.&nbsp; First, I will only buy certified coins &quot;sight-unseen&quot; that are graded by the likes of PCGS, NGC, ICG and ANACS.&nbsp; I may take a look at a PCI or a SEGS graded coin in MS grades, but only after I mentally deduct 2 to 5 MS grades before I bid accordingly.&nbsp; I would really advise you NOT to buy raw coins on line (sight-unseen) as there are just too many fakes, dipped, whizzed, counterfeit, and OVERLY-self graded coins being sold.&nbsp; This can and will sour your interest in the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for prices realized, all of the auction houses have &quot;prices realized&quot; for a given coin in a given grade slabbed by the likes of the top four.&nbsp; You can see what the market is bearing and pretty much gauge what you will have to pay for a given coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can save and wait for a major coin show like the F.U.N. in Orlando (every January, world&#039;s largest!), then do just that as there is nothing better than seeing and holding what you are buying than relying on good pictures...and somebody that says, &quot;trust me&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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